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Aeo3 HD Smart Lite 1.1.39

UPDATE COMING SOON - VERSION 1.5
• Added hardware compatibility
• User Interface update
• Minor bug fixes

Latest Version: 1.1.39
Platform: Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7
* not tested on Windows 95, 98, ME and NT, but may work.
Release Date: 2010-7-5
License Type: FREE for Personal and Commercial

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Features

Software Manual

Why It Was Created

Change Log

Aeo3 HD Smart Lite is a portable software utility that retrieves hard disk drives' health, performance and operation status. This set of information is known as the hard disk drive’s Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.) data.

This software can detect and retrieves information such as Internal Temperature, Power-On Hours, Read-Error Rate, Reallocated Sectors, Uncorrectable Errors and more.

Hard Drive Failures

Hard disks failure is a certainty and can be a traumatic experience. All drives will gradually degrade over time. However sudden catastrophic failure does happen in the first few months of a new hard disk.

One of the best way to prevent data lost from hard disk failure is to know the drives' conditions.

Bought a computer, but not sure if the PC or hard disk is new?

Aeo3 HD Smart Lite can also detect the age of the drive, hence indirectly gauge the age of the computer (assuming the hard disk came with the original computer).

Important

    BIOS Hard Disk SMART has to be Enabled.

    Windows Administrative Privileges is required.

    This is a Read-only application. It does NOT write to the Hard Disk.

    This is NOT a data recovery software. It does NOT rescue accidentally deleted data.

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	CNET Download.com Type: Portable with Single Executable Download Size: 3.14MB
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MD5: 543ed24dc664a758ccf4e98527cfef9c *Aeo3HDSmartLite_portable.zip Note: Packed and Compressed Dynamic-Link-Libraries (Dlls) into single EXE.

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Privacy and Security

This software does NOT behave like, contain or support any type or form of Virus, Spyware, Adware, Trojan, Malware, Advertising Agents, Instruments for Spam, Keystroke Loggers and Malicious Proxy.

This software does NOT change any aspects of Microsoft ® Windows ® Security and Firewall features.

Executable Scanned with Anti-Virus
ESET Smart Security Suite v4 (2011-Feb-14) - OK. SAFE.

Anti-Virus False Positive
False positive may occur with portable application. The application has been tested by Aeo3, CNET and Softpedia with multiple antivirus software and deemed safe to run.
Let us know if you are experiencing False Positive. You may try a installer version.

Aeo3 HD Smart Lite Installer version
Download Size: 2.28MB
MD5: 62722de030bddb6da56779b2f74a505c *Aeo3HDSmartLite_setup.zip
Note: Setup briefly tested on Windows XP SP3, Vista and Windows 7.

Operation Features

Reads Hard Disk's Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.) data.

Shows Hard Disk Age in Days (converting 24 hours to a day). Raw log shows in hours.

Detects Hard Disk's Model, Serial Number, Firmware, Size, Partitions and Operation Status.

List available SMART Attributes and values for each hard disk drives.

Shows SMART Threshold, Worst, Standard and RAW Hexadecimal values.

Convert relevant Raw Hexadecimal to Decimal values for easy understanding.

Detects IDE, SATA, SCSI and independent Hard Disk Controllers.

Retrieves Hard Disk Controllers' Operation Status.

Regards Low Operational Temperature as a potential danger.

Lite version supports up to 36 hard disk drives.

StatusBar shows Hard Disks Temperature (°C), formatted Hard Disk Space and Model.

Simple Drive List Panel for Quick View of Hard Disk Temperature, Health and Age.

CTRL-C to copy Log into Clipboard.

Shows Hard Disk Drive's Serial Number.

Simple Hard Disk Health Indicators.

Aeo3 HD Smart Lite Screenshots

GOOD TO STORE IMPORTANT FILES

OK – Good Health.

STORE LESS IMPORTANT/NON-CRITICAL FILES

MINOR ISSUE(S) – Detected minor problems but most likely not life threatening.

Sometimes running extensive hard drive defragmentation or virus scan can cause a spike in anomalies.

CAUTIOUS – A combination of factors indicates the hard disk may need to be monitored more regularly.

AGING – The hard disk is gradually experiencing more irregularities, but most likely not serious.

RECOMMEND REPLACING HARD DISK

Data lost generally refers to limited damages such as corrupted file(s) due to bad sector(s).

Sudden failure refers to the catastrophic hard disk failure where by the stored data is completely lost, but may still be recovered.

DEGRADING – More and more issues are detected. Data lost is a possibility.

RISKY – The hard disk has a rising possibility of sudden failure and data lost.

HI-RISK – The hard disk is experiencing increasing failure rates on multiple fronts. High possibility of sudden failure and data lost.

SERIOUS – Combination of factors indicate this hard disk is facing likelihood of failure in near future. Try not to stress the hard disk at this stage.

DANGER – The hard disk is dangerously near end-of-life. Data lost may have already occurred.

CRITICAL – Recommend replacing hard disk. Multiple failures detected. Data lost may have occurred.

DEATHBED – Recommend immediately replacing hard disk. Imminent Hard Disk Failure.

Supported Hard Disk SMART Attributes

• READ ERROR RATE
• THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE
• SPIN-UP TIME
• START STOP COUNT
• REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT
• READ CHANNEL MARGIN
• SEEK ERROR RATE
• SEEK TIME PERFORMANCE
• POWER-ON HOURS
• SPIN RETRY COUNT
• CALIBRATION RETRY COUNT
• POWER CYCLE COUNT
• SOFT READ ERROR RATE
• END-TO-END ERROR
• REPORTED UNCORRECTABLE ERRORS
• COMMAND TIMEOUT
• HIGH FLY WRITES
• TEMPERATURE AUXILIARY
• G-SENSE ERROR RATE
• POWER OFF RETRACT CYCLE
• LOAD UNLOAD CYCLE COUNT
• TEMPERATURE
• HARDWARE ECC RECOVERED
• REALLOCATION EVENT COUNT
• CURRENT PENDING SECTOR COUNT
• UNCORRECTABLE SECTOR COUNT
• ULTRADMA CRC ERROR RATE

• WRITE ERROR RATE
• SOFT READ ERROR RATE
• DATA ADDRESS MARK ERRORS
• RUN OUT CANCEL
• SOFT ECC CORRECTION
• THERMAL ASPERITY RATE
• FLYING HEIGHT
• SPIN HIGH CURRENT
• SPIN BUZZ
• OFFLINE SEEK PERFORMANCE
• VIBRATION DURING WRITE
• SHOCK DURING WRITE
• DISK SHIFT
• G SENSE ERROR RATE II
• LOADED HOURS
• LOAD UNLOAD RETRY COUNT
• LOAD FRICTION
• LOAD UNLOAD CYCLE COUNT II
• LOAD IN TIME
• TORQUE AMPLIFICATION COUNT
• POWER-OFF RETRACT COUNT
• GMR HEAD AMPLITUDE
• DRIVE TEMPERATURE
• HEAD FLYING HOURS
• READ ERROR RETRY RATE
• FREE FALL PROTECTION
and vendor specific attributes.

About Read/Scan Error Rate (Lower is Better)

Seagate Hard Disks log "Raw" Read Error Rate - before any internal Error-Correcting Code (ECC) has been implemented. This is a different approach when compared to other companies.

Users with Seagate Hard Disks should cross reference "Read Error Rate" with "Hardware ECC Recovered".

Manufacturers like Western Digital logs errors after ECC has been applied - giving you actual errors that cannot be corrected by the hard disk. Therefore on Western Digital hard disks, "Read Error Rate" is an indicator of REAL errors.

Why It Was Created

Aeo3 HD Smart Lite was designed to be simple and easy. I developed this tool primarily for myself. A few computer technicians have since been using this program in their department and company as part of their computer maintenance routine.

The followings are the primary objectives for Aeo3 HD Smart Lite.

Quick access of Hard Disk Drive's complete S.M.A.R.T. Data

Check Drive's Temperature, maintains in a healthy zone to avoid Bad Sector occurrence

Allow detection of drive errors (Read Error Rate) and bad sectors (Reallocated Sector Count)

Check the Drive's Operational Hours and swap out those that exceed 26280 hours (or 3 years)

Buying a new drive but not sure it's genuinely new? Check the drives Power-On Hours.

Change Log

1.1.39	New. Added 2 more levels in Health Status and more consideration factors. Fix. Minor bug fixes.
1.1.38	New. Simplified Info Panel with the most important Hard Disk information. New. Analyze Hard Disk Health with S.M.A.R.T. Data to provide Health Status. Fix. Minor bug fixes.
1.0	First general launch.

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